Test Drive Meme 016

[voidtreckermods]

Welcome to the Test Drive Meme! Here is the place to see how your character might fit the setting, grab samples and have fun!

1. Post with your character, including their name and series in the subject. We’ve written out some prompts but feel free to make up your own, you have a whole train to play with!

2. Assume they've been around long enough for threads to jump right into the action.

3. Have lots of fun. Mandatory, mod-sanctioned fun.

Happy testing!

Silence in the Library

The library is a double carriage. Downstairs is brightly-coloured, with cover posters across the walls, tables and chairs in the strong colours of the team uniforms, and a wooden model train placed as though winding its way through the carriage with carriages of shelves in tow. The walls are shelving, and beanbags litter the floor. Upstairs is quieter, rows of nonfiction shelves with private desks at the end of each row; the sound up here is muffled.

You don't know who, you don't know why, but someone or something has had a bad power day. How do you know? Well, the fact that the characters of any book you read keep coming to life as tiny versions of themselves and running riot around the carriage... that might have been a clue.

You just wish you'd picked a different book before realising it.

An Apple a Day

Medical is another double carriage, though it boasts one of the few person-sized lifts on the train as well as stairs. On the bottom floor, two of the three rooms are examination rooms, with simple beds, equipment and first-aid capacity. The third is a surgical bay, albeit a simpler one than some passengers may anticipate. All three rooms have ICPs with instructions and manuals for all equipment and a number of medical procedures.

Upstairs, there are four private recovery rooms, with a medical bed and an accessible en-suite. It's possible to check a passenger into one of these rooms, at which point they cannot leave until discharged by the person who checked them in.

Which, unfortunately, you are entirely aware of. You've been here for three days, and you're climbing the walls. But that'll teach you to get injured in such a stupid way. Or so they hope.

Sprockets and Skysong

In which a train arrives among the smokestacks of Little Underpool with some unexpected visitors.

Little Underpool is a township on Void world #30630687444. Caught up in the middle of what appears to be a series of industrial revolutions, the world is in a state of constant, chaotic innovation. Currently, that means that there is a power struggle going on between the skywhaling megacorporation Scrimshaw Inc and the Zephyr Company, an airship manufacturer, over control of the skies above Underpool, and the rapidly diminishing population of skywhales, whose bones are used in most modern airships, and whose blood is a key fuel source for a great number of new devices and engines. The voidtreckers are, this mission, to rescue the whales, rather than any humanoids.

Team One

Infiltrating Scrimshaw Inc, this team's job is to sabotage the tracking drones used to locate the whale pods, to allow the great beasts to migrate successfully away from Underpool. The offices of the corporation are in a series of spiralling brass and bone towers in the centre of the town, connected by exposed cable bridges that run to dizzying heights. Their clockwork guards are numerous, but often faulty, and highly vulnerable to tinkering.

Team Two

This team's job is to hijack some of the Zephyr Company's airships, and use them to defend the whale pods closest to Underpool. Several pods contain whale calves, and cannot evacuate as fast as the larger bachelor groups. The airships are light, and handle well, but their oddly organic design can be rather unsettling. The primary weapons are harpoons and short-range bomb slings, both as deadly against other airships as they are against their original targets.

Team Three

The final team's task is less direct - they must go among the populace of Underpool and spread unrest, redirecting the attention of the people towards the plight of their nonhuman neighbours in the sky, and the wrongdoings of their resident megacorporations. The people are not aware that the whales are an entirely sentient species, which appears to be a deliberate obfuscation by the town's council and sponsors. Your job is to change that.

Comments

Nicole the Holo-Lynx | Archie Sonic (Reboot) | OTA

[sparkoflife]

A) Silence in the Library

On one hand, Nicole can't help but feel something of relief. She isn't perpetually stuck in an old hard drive after dealing with Phage, her usual handheld computer is SOMEHOW fixed and active and, oddly, she can interact with things in a much more normal fashion.

Which means the lynx is opting to investigate things to sate her curiosity. Which lead her to the library. She had absolutely no idea that things went completely south and, upon looking at one book, yelped as she was met with a gout of fire and a dragon marched out as she dropped it.

"M-Must not be a friend of Dulcy's...!" she gasped. And then other figures walked out. "Oh, not good..."

B) An Apple A Day...

Well now Nicole did it. She went and got herself hurt. Bruised knee. Best to make sure it was a-okay. And when it was, she waited for the person who brought her in to come back and get her.

And she waited. And waited. And waited some more. Still no sigh of people.

"Hello?!" she called out. "I'm, uh... I'm done in here! Someone wanna give me a hand?!" She pleaded with her eyes. "Please?"

C) Sprockets and Skysong - Team One

Oh, boy, this brought back memories... and she isn't sure if it's her memories or those of the "other her". Invading Robotropolis, sneaking past the various Egg Pawns and random Badniks to make Eggman's life trouble and bring them one step closer to saving the kingdom from him.

Nicole could easily handle this on her own, but she knew that things needed to be done as a team. She turned and tossed to one of her allies her computer.

"Hold this real fast. I'll distract one of those robots and you can probably easily hack it from there."

X) Wildcard

(OoC: Got another idea? Hit me up!)

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[biasedneutrality]

Tylendel only manages to catch the computer through judicious application of Fetching. The computer wobbles, suspended in the air, but it holds until he's able to properly hold it. That's only half of the problem solved.

"Hack?" His voice is confused, and he says the word like it's foreign. "I don't understand."

[consider8]

Eight was sitting in another room, looking over a prescription bottle to try to understand what it was saying. Not having an advanced medical degree, the thing read like indecipherable gibberish, but for want for something to do she persisted.

--that was until she heard the cry. Though she was already aware that she was not the intended recipient, having another person to talk to beat trying to determine what clozapine was and why it caused tardive kinesthesia.

Cautiously, she slowly pushed opened the door and saw a... fuzzy person! Interesting. "Yes?" She asked, looking out through the crack that she made.

[sparkoflife]

"Ah, thank goodness someone came..." Nicole said, breathing a sigh of relief. "This place wasn't letting me out and I needed someone to help me out. I have usual ways, but... I don't want to cause a panic."

[consider8]

"Hwee?" The Octogirl squeaked. She was still getting used to these new people and marveled at how quickly they adapted to her presence. Timidly Eight stepped out and looked at what Nicole was working on.

"What do you want me to do?" She had not decided on whether or not she was going to go through with it, but seeing a girl with purpose was more than enough to get Eight intrigued.

[sparkoflife]

"There's a terminal over there. Look up the name "Nicole" and just hit a button. It should clear me to leave. "Don't worry, it should be fine!"

[consider8]

She follows orders and types in a few things. Pauses. And addresses the girl directly. "But aren't you supposed to be in there? You shouldn't leave too early if you are injured."

[sparkoflife]

“I’m fine, really, but...” Nicole began to say before adding. “I’ve never been hurt before, so I’m not sure I’m doing this right.”

[consider8]

Eight freezes. How could that be possible? Even in a world that had not been fighting as much as hers, that should be impossible. Did this girl sit and do nothing but technology all day?

"You've... never been hurt before...?" Her voice is hushed whisper. "How...?"

[sparkoflife]

"...back home, I'm a hard-light hologram. A computer program given life." Nicole admitted. "Somehow I can be real here, but... that's what I am. But, I know that despite the looks, I'm real. And... honestly, it's pretty cool."

[consider8]

The girl's face darkened and she gives Nicole a hard stare. "...you're an AI?"

She's had... bad experiences with AI...

[sparkoflife]

"Woah, woah, I'm good! Honest!" Nicole said, throwing her hands up in defense. "I help my friends defend my world from a mad scientist and his army of robots."

"How can I gain your trust?"

[consider8]

Hmm... good question. Though she recognizes that the program does appear to be trying. Hmn...

...well, if there was one thing that she wanted to know it would be...

"What is your primary function?"

[sparkoflife]

"Primary function? Heh, I've probably gone beyond that, but I am to assist in any way Princess Sally Acorn of the Kingdom of Mobotropolis." Nicole said. "She and I go way back."

[consider8]

Hmn... its a start. "And how do you intend to go about accomplishing your task?"

[sparkoflife]

"Well, seeing as I haven't see her since coming her, I guess I'll have to go down the chain of command... but, since I haven't seen anyone from home, I think it would be left to the people in control of the train." Nicole mused.
"Or perhaps I could give you permission."

[consider8]

Uh... "But if the people on the train thought that you should be in there, then, logically, you would need to stay there if that is what your programming tells you to do."

"Right?"

[sparkoflife]

Nicole thought it over a bit. "...I guess you're right."

"I just felt that I was alright and thought that I should be let out." She sighed, then smiled at the Octoling. "Guess even programs can err, huh?"

[consider8]

Hmn... felt? Wanting out? An error?

"Are you really an AI?"

[sparkoflife]

"Yes, I am. But I've gathered so much information, learned so much about the world that I'm... I'm something much more than just a simple AI." Nicole admitted. "This body, this look? I made it myself because I wanted to see the stars in the night sky. There's still so much I want to experience..."

[consider8]

Eight lowered her head, causing her tentacles covering her eyes. Nicole scares her, yes... but she also knows that longing. She felt the pull of wanting more, and were it not for her friends giving the chance she never would have...

A hand reached out to the console. "You said 'Nicole,' right?"

[sparkoflife]

Nicole blinked curiously and nodded. "Yes, that's right."

Did she say something to make her change her mind?

[consider8]

She pushes the button as commanded. She takes a step back from the door, her eyes waiting to see what Nicole does next.

She hopes she doesn't regret it.

[sparkoflife]

Once the door opens, Nicole blinks, then slowly steps out, moving to meet the girl before her.

"...thank you." She said, smiling warmly.

[consider8]

As the AI once told her when she first met it: "Fo' shizzle."

She's not sure what it means, but it felt appropriate.